Affiliate management system

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeaffiliate/

SourceForge.net, a truckload of free stuff...
#programming #affiliate #management #system
  • Thanks for posting the link. It's true that there's some good free stuff on SourceForge. Unfortunately, this free affiliate script isn't (good, that is).

    I took a look at the way it interacts with the user and the database. It makes no attempt to validate or clean up the input before inserting it into the database (other than checking for non-empty input and trimming blanks). This is totally unsafe, completely open to SQL injection attacks.

    If you need an affiliate program script, please don't use this one. Your site could be hacked in two minutes by a ten-year-old. Buy a professionally-written script.

    "Free affiliate" is an excellent example of an amateur programming project that should never have gotten out into the public.

    Steve
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    • Well everybody has to start somewhere. Both developers and users. The developers probably have it free right now to have people test it so they can give their opinions on what needs to be changed in order to make it better.

      Some users also don't enough money to buy a professional script, like me.

      Being hacked by a ten-year-old is very common these days, even without an easy-to-hack website. I know a seven year old who creates his own websites and phishes accounts from all sorts of things, and an eight year old that knows how to DDOS websites.

      Sourceforge is also the one place to go for free things to "test". Pretty much everything on there is an open source beta of a future high-end product. Eventually, that free script HomeBizzNizz just showed, well most likely be one of the high-end scripts to be using.

      All in all, it is a nice script and would recommend to people who don't have the money for a current high-end script. It doesn't clean up anything, but is easily fixed with editing the files and knowing some coding skills.
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